[inaudible] well come to order. We are considering President Bidens nomination of julie su to be the secretary of the United States department of labour. I welcome her this morning. Let me get directly to the point. I strongly support miss sus nomination. She has been an excellent deputy secretary of labor for the last two years and i believe she will make an excellent secretary of labor into the future. I hope very much that you will be confirmed by the senate and we need her in her job as soon as possible. Let us be honest as we gather this morning, a debate over miss su really has nothing to do with her qualifications. No one can tell us with a straight face that miss su is unqualified for this position. In fact, she is extremely well qualified. This debate, really, has everything to do with the fact that julie su is a championing of the working class of this country who will stand up against the forces of corporate greed. That is really what this debate is about. Lets be very clear
Thank you for the interest and byhusiasm you have shown your attendance and participation in the series. Foring with the candidates state office, hearing their views on the issues, engaging them in question and answer discussions helps us as responsible citizens to enfranchise ourselves productively and responsibly. It will be of interest to our guest today to know that so far in this series we have been addressed by the candidates of all parties for treasurer, controller, attorney general, and lieutenant governor, and one of the gubernatorial candidates, mr. Brown, was here yesterday. Im pleased to tell our guest [laughter] [applause] im pleased to tell our guest that there are four sponsors of this series. Company, the employee association, and the two unions that represent the genie employees. Pg e employees. In tune with the spirit of the coming season, may i say that there are only four more shopping days left for governor. It has been a long and interesting campaign. It has been
Thank you for the interest and byhusiasm you have shown your attendance and participation in the series. Foring with the candidates state office, hearing their views on the issues, engaging them in question and answer discussions helps us as responsible citizens to enfranchise ourselves productively and responsibly. It will be of interest to our guest today to know that so far in this series we have been addressed by the candidates of all parties for treasurer, controller, attorney general, and lieutenant governor, and one of the gubernatorial candidates, mr. Brown, was here yesterday. Im pleased to tell our guest [laughter] [applause] im pleased to tell our guest that there are four sponsors of this series. Company, the employee association, and the two unions that represent the genie employees. Pg e employees. In tune with the spirit of the coming season, may i say that there are only four more shopping days left for governor. It has been a long and interesting campaign. It has been
Food that we eat. You can watch this and other programs at booktv. Org. Booktv covers hundreds of Office Programs dropped the country all year long area heres a here is a look at some of the events that we will be attending the week. Look for these programs to air in the near future on booktv on cspan2. On tuesday we are at the harvard club on the report of russias efforts to dominate world energy supply. The next evening at the University Club in new york city and looking at the lower state taxation and Economic Prosperity with art laffer. Then we are alive with the National Book awards. On saturday and sunday, we are live from the 31st annual miami au pair with author panels and viewer call and with the likes of cornel west and john dean. That is some of the programs we will be covering this upcoming week. Visit upcoming programs for more. Barrett tillman recounts the military exploits in world war ii during his talk on his book forgotten fifteenth. This is about one hour and 15 minu
To self made millionaire about what it means to be black and part of the 1 . And the out of this world photos from right here on earth. President obama has israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netenyahu are allies but apparently not friends, and their private differences are playing out in public Prime Minister netenyahu is expected to speak to Congress Tomorrow morning, and he bypassed the white house. Mike viqueira is at the white with more. Mike . Reporter Benjamin Netenyahu is here for one purpose and one purpose only. He is trying to rerail the deal between what he sees as the relationship between the itself and iran. The president in an interview late today said the damage between the two is probably not permanent. And both sides are emphasizing the strength of the relationship. A lot of prepositioning and posturing going on before the big speech before a joint meeting of Congress Tomorrow. But make no mistake, there is a difference of opinion over some basic facts here chiefly whethe